President Trump insisted more than once during an interview with The New York Times that he “always” respects the results of elections — even as he repeated his attacks on the trustworthiness of a system that twice landed him in the White House.

President Trump, who returned to the White House to serve a second nonconsecutive term by winning the 2024 election, again claimed election "rigged."

WASHINGTON, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Jack Smith, the former Justice Department special counsel who brought two now-dropped criminal cases against U.S. President Donald Trump, said that the Republican had acknowledged to others that he lost the 2020 election against former President Joe Biden, according to a transcript of a testimony by Smith.

ATLANTA — A Fulton County Superior Court judge is allowing evidence that was shielded from public view in 2020 election interference case can now be made public.

Former special counsel Jack Smith defended his decision to bring charges twice against President Donald Trump -- telling lawmakers in a closed-door deposition earlier this month that his team "had proof beyond reasonable doubt in both cases" that Trump was guilty of the charges in the 2020 election interference and classified documents cases.

The webpage, featured under the official whitehouse.gov domain, says Democrats framed "the event as a violent coup attempt orchestrated by Trump."

During his first term, he publicly suggested delaying the 2020 election, despite lacking the authority to do so. More recently, in a meeting in August with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump appeared to voice approval of Ukraine’s ban on elections under martial law, prompting laughter in the room but alarm among his critics.

Peters was convicted on state charges of participating in a 2021 voting machine breach and is serving a nine-year sentence in a Pueblo women’s prison.